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Demoscene: 30 Years of Creative Programming Demoscene: 30 years of creative programming Markku Reunanen [email protected] Demoscene? ● A technologically and creatively oriented community – A subculture? Hackers? Hobbyists? ● Started already in the early 1980s ● Main artifact: demos, real-time audiovisual presentations (and a lot more) Why interesting or notable? ● A pre-Internet worldwide community ● Tens of thousands of works ● Mirrors the changing times, cultural adoption ● Crossover with games, media art and so on Whoami ● Demo research since 2004 – Demoscene Research with Antti Silvast – Articles, WiderScreen thematic issue ● One of them, too. Mostly as a coder and a graphician (1991–) – Very common among other researchers as well Outline ● General properties ● A chronology ● Now and in the future ● Readings and other pointers Where are demos made? ● Largely a West and North European phenomenon, esp. (West) Germany and the Nordic Countries ● East Europe and Russia long behind the iron curtain, more activity after that ● Scarce elsewhere – Why? Hackers, otakus, technical reasons “A typical scener” ● Heavily male-dominant hobby – As they've tended to be in general ● Originally teenagers and youngster – Later on, growing old – not necessarily a youth culture anymore – … and little rotation Demogroups ● Demos are mostly made by groups – 3–5 people participate actively – Big and international groups, too ● Names such as: Scoopex, The Physical Crew, Booze Design ● And the Members have handles: Dr. Acid, Slayer, Marq – Notation: Broti/Digital Talk (“of”) Roles ● You need at least a: – Programmer (coder) – Musician – Graphician – In essence, quite standard roles ● Other duties, too: – Leader, organizer, swapper, SysOp, hangaround, mascot etc. Parties ● An important part of the culture – Started as copyparties – Networking, competitions, getting wasted – Typically yearly events (these days) ● Assembly, Revision, The Gathering, Alternative Party (The Party, Breakpoint) ● Party photos: http://www.slengpung.com/ Parties (2) Not only demos ● Sceners produce a lot more – Images – Music – Videos – Disk magazines, diskmags (esp. 1990s) – These days also some games Diskmags ● Scene journalism: R.A.W. #6 But is it art? ● Especially in the 1980s nobody thought they were doing “art” ● In the 1990s the art discourse emerges, together with “design demos” ● Recently, in the 2000s, very experimental works at times ● …so it must be art? But is it art? (2) ● On the other hand, the works are made for the community itself – Some rare demo exhibitions in museums (e.g. Kiasma 2003) ● Some sceners are in the media art circles, but they're a minority ● Own values, technically-oriented, rarely political A chronology ● Next let's look at some productions from the last 30 years ● There are possibly more than >100.000, so we can only scratch the surface ● For various platforms, so we'll stick to videos and emulators Apple II ● Apple's second computer, 1977 Crack screens ● http://artscene.textfiles.com/intros/APPLEII/ Commodore 64 ● World's most sold home computer, 1983 Crack intros ● Greetings and info screens at the beginning of cracked games Crack intros (2) ● Bragging and contacts important ● Ingenious effect programming ● The same intro reused multiple times ● Examples: – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78D9MwLPidw – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd3_aYlAZwM – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsMViGUGaQM Towards demos ● Right from the beginning intros often made by someone else than the cracker ● Around 1990 an increasing divide – Legislation, different user generation, the death of C-64 – Swappers linked the two trades (pirates and demosceners) for long Megademos ● Multiple screen collections ● Initially “interactive” (press space) ● In the early1990s the continuous trackmo style ● Examples: – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fODLGHaMCsQ – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBtd-Fwkacg Commodore Amiga (1985) ● Amiga 500 (1987) was popular here, too Peak Amiga ● Amiga-demos emerged already in the mid- 1980s – A notable competitor was the audiovisually poorer Atari ST (1984) ● Increasing self-awareness, better sound and graphics capabilities ● Commodore bankruptcy in 1994 Amiga demos ● Red Sector Megademo (1989) – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcnqcF0b2xw ● Scoopex: Mental Hangover (1990) – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=085cxkahmwY ● Spaceballs: State of the Art (1992) – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPSst20JEcE ● Andromeda: Nexus-7 (1994, AGA) – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnFTW10Piyw PC generations ● IBM PC, 1981 PC generations (2) ● A huge change in 34 years ● Initially poor sound and graphics capabilities ● Started improving towards the 1990s – SoundBlaster, Gravis UltraSound, VGA cards, CPU power ● Finally in the late 1990s affordable 3D accelerators PC demos ● Space Pigs Megademo (1990) – http://www.demoscene.tv/prod.php?id_prod=6650 ● Complex: Dope (1995) – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yJ5M3BY2Ts ● Blasphemy: Moral Hard Candy (1999) – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWdofIubBTM ● RGBA: Elevated (2009), 4k-intro – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YWMGuh15nE Other platforms ● 1980s home computers – Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Atari ST, MSX, Amstrad CPC, Oric … ● Game consoles ● Mobile phones, PDAs ● Macintosh, Atari Falcon, Linux ● Browsers: Flash, JavaScript Fit-039: Boy (2008) ● If time allows :) Living fossils ● Old demo machines don't necessarily disappear – Nostalgia – Community – “Squeezing the last cycle out” ethics ● Especially the C-64 scene is still active – Even here a demoparty in 2015, Zoo Sceners now ● Many work in various fields of new media – Programmers, designers, musicians, researchers, IT specialists ● A pre-school for the game industry? ● You learn useful skills, but... – A too easy narrative, incorporation, byproduct The future of the scene? ● The community is still alive and productive, parties are held frequently – Large parties have turned game-centric ● Little rotation of members ● Certain decline in activity – Bent Stamnes's statistics: http://blog.subsquare.com/page/2/ Preservation challenges ● Machines and storage media don't last forever – Archives – Emulation – Videos: YouTube etc. – Migration, re-creation: rare ● Similar questions as in software, game and new media art preservation Readings ● Tamas Polgar (2005): Freax: The Brief History of the Demoscene ● Anders Carlsson (2009): The Forgotten Pioneers of Creative Hacking and Social Networking ● Markku Reunanen (2010): Computer Demos – What Makes Them Tick? Readings (2) ● Daniel Botz (2011): Kunst, Code und Maschine ● Patryk Wasiak (2012): 'Illegal Guys' ● WiderScreen thematic issue (1–2/2014) – http://www.widerscreen.fi/ Links ● Pouet.net: http://www.pouet.net/ ● CSDb: http://www.csdb.dk/ ● Demozoo: http://www.demozoo.org/ ● Scene.org: http://www.scene.org/ ● Party pics: http://www.slengpung.com/ ● http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene Thx! Questions? .
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